N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

If you’ve ever played a team sport like soccer or basketball, you quickly learn that while it is helpful to have an “all-star” player, the best teams leverage the talents of all their players on the field and elevate everyone’s game in order to consistently win. Encourage diversity of thought – dissenting opinions are helpful!

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Do Women Bring More Happiness to Families, Greater Effectiveness to Organizations? She follows sports, not out of a love for it, but because it gives her a language to connect with her boys. why is everyone smiling?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

And according to a newly-released study , women executives who once played competitive sports, in college or elsewhere, prefer to hire other people with athletics in their background. Of these top executives, over half (52%) played a sport at the college or university level. Women executives are no different.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star. Everybody had to do the sports hour.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

And they behave in an impulsive fashion — they violate the ethics of the workplace. In one experiment, participants in power took candy from children without blinking an eye. We should also take a lesson from the now-canonical studies of Stanley Milgram on obedience to authority.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Investigate those doing what you want to do. Their advice can be invaluable. Research prospects and contacts. Try new approaches.

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